Windows Vista Upgrade – Public availability

Good news for Windows Vista users 🙂 as Microsoft has now decided to give away the Vista Service Pack 1 release to all public as opposed to its previous decision of trying it out with just the private users.

Though the official release of SP1 is scheduled to be released somewhere in February, this is supposed to have provided some bug fixes, performance and compatibility improvements, but no huge app upgrades or functionality enhancements, though there are some unspecified minor new features.

Please note that SP1 RC Refresh, as the update is known, requires previous versions of SP1 to be uninstalled first, and there are several updates you’ll need to apply to your existing Vista install which can’t be removed later should you want to downgrade to a stable version of Vista.

So give it a try if you can’t wait until the final release is available. 🙂